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J. HANLON.

GAS APPARATUS.

Patented Jan. 2, 1883.

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JOHN HANLON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 TEIE UNITED GAS IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAS APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,929, dated January 2, 1883.

Application filed July 10, 1882. (N0 model.)

I 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoHN HANLON, of the city and State ofNew York, haveinvented anew and useful Improvement in Gas Apparatus, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which A Figure 1 is a front elevation of a carburetor with my improvements attached. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view. Fig. 4 is a side elevation. Fig. 5 is a cross-section.

My invention relates to that class of gas apparatus in which steam is decomposed and the resulting gases combined with oil vapor; and it consists in the combination of devices hereinafter explained and claimed. To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will explain the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the drawings, A represents a gas apparatus provided with the independent. furnaces B B, each furnace'having its own tire-cham hers I) b and air-blast for heating the fuel. B is the generating and B the fixing chamber. The horizontal and perpendicular flue a a (6 leads from the furnace B, at a point above the fuel, 0, into stack B. The flues d d lead from the superheating-chamber or arched oven D, at a point above the fuel, 0, to the exit pipe I), which conveys the gas to a washer constructed in the ordinary manner. admitted below the fuel in furnace B through the pipe E, and is superheated by the intense heat in the furnace B. As this heat would be destructive to the carbon, the oil is introduced into the furnace B through the pipes 0.- Steam being admitted through pipe 6 the steam impinges on the oil at e, which throws the oil in aspray at a point above the fuel, and then mixes with the water-gas of the steam admit- Steam is ted below the tire. The gases thus mixed pass through the flue a a a. to the furnace B at a lower point of the heated fuel, and, ascending through the fuel at a lower temperature than the fuel in the furnace B, are fixed without injury to th e=carbon of the oil. After the gases are thus fixed they pass from the furnace B the superheating-tlues d d to the exit-pipe,

and then through pipe D to the washer.

Should it become necessary, I turn on the air and steam into furnace B through the pipe through the superheating-chamber D, through E. The flue a a a while acting as a tine,

'is a superheateri The chamber l) and fines d d are also superheaters, and by their location in reference to fire-chambersB and B are an important feature of my invention.

It is evident that by first passing the steam through an intense heat, sutiicientto decompose it, and subsequently passing the mixed gases through a lesser heat, but a heat sufficient to fix the gases, I avoid all danger of destroying the carbon of the oil, which is the object of 6;

Should the heat in chamber B" with the steam-pipe E below the fuel, the oilpipe 6 and steam-pipe a above the fuel, and the conducting-dues a a M, in combination with the furnace B and the flues D d d, all constructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' JOHN HANLON.

Witnesses:

SAM O. WENDT, JAS. E. LEADLEY. 

